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Using Smart System to Scale and Target Proactive Security Guidance

One important step in the Adobe Secure Product Lifecyle is embedding security into product requirements and planning. To help with this effort, we’ve begun using a third-party tool called SD Elements.

SD Elements is a smart system that helps us scale our proactive security guidance by allowing us to define and recommend targeted security requirements to product teams across the company in an automated fashion. The tool enables us to provide more customized guidance to product owners than we could using a generic OWASP Top 10 or SANS Top 20 Controls for Internet Security list and it provides development teams with specific, actionable recommendations. We use this tool not only for our “light touch” product engagements, but to also provide our “heavy touch” engagements with the same level of consistent guidance as a foundation from which to work.

Another benefit of the tool is that it helps makes proactive security activities more measurable, which in turn helps demonstrate results which can be reported to upper management.

ASSET has worked with the third-party vendor Security Compass, to enhance SD Elements by providing feedback from “real world” usage of the product. The benefit to Adobe is that we get a more customized tool right off the shelf – beyond this, we’ve used the specialized features to tailor the product to fit our needs even more.

We employ many different tools and techniques with the SPLC and SD Elements is just one of those but we are starting to see success in the use of the product. It helps us make sure that product teams are adhering to a basic set of requirements and provides customized, actionable recommendations on top. For more information on how we use the tool within Adobe, please see the SD Elements Webcast.